Penns Grove: The Salem County squad is one of the best Group 1 schools in the state and has gone undefeated in dominating fashion. Penns Grove has outscored its opponents, 408-26, with Glassboro coming the closest in a 36-18 loss to open the season. Nick Elmer, Anthony Robertson, Jabrail Murray pace an offense that's scoring 51 points per game and averaging 368.5 yards of offense. The defense has six shutouts to its credit behind Antwan Pierce, Robertson, Rich Gray, Troy Moore, Sam Harvey, Isaiah Coppage and Raequan Norman.

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Woodbury: Alabama-commit Anthony Averett makes this team go with his play at quarterback and at defensive back. Dwuan Martin, Cameron Gamble and Jeray Demby are his go-to receivers and Jamir Baston joins him on a defense that's allowed 97 points in eight games. The defense has three shutouts. The only loss came to West Deptford.

Glassboro: The defending champs have the section's best player in Wisconsin-commit Corey Clement. Outside of all his rushing accolades, which are plenty, he also has 40 tackles and eight sacks on defense. The offense is scoring 40 points per game and Juwan Johnson is the leading receiver. Jared Francis, Quinn Haltiwanger lead a defense that's forced 18 turnovers.

Gloucester City: Ben Boyer makes plays on both sides of the ball for the team, but Larry Spann has also been a spark on offense with 10 rushing TDs. A loss to Glassboro is the team's only blemish. Tristin Boggs is a tackling-machine and he leads the defense Tyler Witcraft, Andrew Morgan, Tom O'Donnell, Kevin Kain and James Baehr.

DARKHORSE

Paulsboro: This is a program with a
rich football tradition and its two losses were to Sterling by three
(13-10) and Woodbury (20-10) by 10, where it was actually leading at
halftime in both. Zack Funk, Leon Rone and Deshaun Burgess lead a
balanced rushing attack and Derrick Burgess, Geraldo Batista, Niko
Savaiinaea, Tre Tarpley, Yusuf Stafford and Kane Segar lead the defense.

BEST FIRST ROUND MATCHUP

Paulsboro at Gloucester City

PLAYERS TO WATCH

Corey Clement, Glassboro: It would be hard to do this list without putting on this Wisconsin commit. Clement is closing in on 2,000 yards and has done so on just 139 carries. He has 1,952 yards (14 yards per carry) and is averaging 244 yards per game and has scored 23 TDs in eight games. He set the South Jersey single-game record with 478 yards on just 14 carries and scored seven times in a 45-23 win over Gloucester City. He's rushed for 200 yards or more in all but two games. If his team gets to the final and he maintains his current averages, he'll shatter his SJ single-season record for yards in a season of 2,510.

Anthony Averett, Woodbury: He leads the way for Woodbury on both sides of the ball. Defense is his specialty and teams try to avoid going at the defensive back. DB is also where he'll be playing at the next level for perennial-power Alabama. He's also a standout at quarterback with game-changing speed and is always a threat to break off a long run. Football isn't the only thing Averett is good at, he's also a great track athlete who successfully defended his long jump title at the Meet of Champions last spring.

Nick Elmer, Penns Grove: The dual-threat quarterback has thrown a TD pass and run for a score in all but one game and has two games where he's thrown and passed for over 100 yards. He's 51-for-97 passing for 1,090 yards with 17 TDs and only five interceptions and is averaging 13.6 yards per carry with 59 carries for 800 yards and nine scores.

Wes Hills, Wildwood: It's Hills and not Clement who's the leading rusher in this bracket. Hills has put together 2,077 rushing yards and 33 TDs on 205 carries and, on the night Clement set the South Jersey single-game rushing record, Hills had 452 yards and seven TDs on 18 carries in a 61-34 win over Maple Shade. He's scored two TDs or more in every game and has rushed for 200 yards or more in all but three games.

Ben Boyer, Gloucester City: The RB/LB seems to leave his prints on every big play for Gloucester City. As a runner, he's collected 1,478 yards and 17 TDs on 248 carries and has scored in all but one game. He also has a receiving TD. On defense, he's tallied 60 tackles, two interceptions and a 1/2 sack.